Rockin’ on without Microsoft

Ernie Ball is a company that makes guitar strings. In 2000 the Business Software Alliance, supported by Microsoft and other proprietary software companies, raided their offices without warning and found a few unlicensed copies of software. They ended up paying $100,000 for their mistake. But CEO Sterling Ball vowed not to give another cent to Microsoft and within 6 months had the whole company switched to Red Hat Linux, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and other free software. In the C|Net News.com article he laughs when people call them “trendsetters” for doing what any company can do if it just decides to do it.

60 Comments

  1. 2003-08-20 6:36 pm
  2. 2003-08-20 6:39 pm
  3. 2003-08-20 6:40 pm
  4. 2003-08-20 6:49 pm
  5. 2003-08-20 6:52 pm
  6. 2003-08-20 7:01 pm
  7. 2003-08-20 7:05 pm
  8. 2003-08-20 7:07 pm
  9. 2003-08-20 7:09 pm
  10. 2003-08-20 7:12 pm
  11. 2003-08-20 7:13 pm
  12. 2003-08-20 7:18 pm
  13. 2003-08-20 7:20 pm
  14. 2003-08-20 7:26 pm
  15. 2003-08-20 7:29 pm
  16. 2003-08-20 7:30 pm
  17. 2003-08-20 7:40 pm
  18. 2003-08-20 7:46 pm
  19. 2003-08-20 7:55 pm
  20. 2003-08-20 8:03 pm
  21. 2003-08-20 8:26 pm
  22. 2003-08-20 8:43 pm
  23. 2003-08-20 8:51 pm
  24. 2003-08-20 9:12 pm
  25. 2003-08-20 9:16 pm
  26. 2003-08-20 9:33 pm
  27. 2003-08-20 10:51 pm
  28. 2003-08-20 11:02 pm
  29. 2003-08-20 11:04 pm
  30. 2003-08-20 11:05 pm
  31. 2003-08-20 11:26 pm
  32. 2003-08-21 12:10 am
  33. 2003-08-21 12:18 am
  34. 2003-08-21 1:03 am
  35. 2003-08-21 1:21 am
  36. 2003-08-21 2:55 am
  37. 2003-08-21 3:16 am
  38. 2003-08-21 3:19 am
  39. 2003-08-21 3:26 am
  40. 2003-08-21 3:49 am
  41. 2003-08-21 3:59 am
  42. 2003-08-21 4:04 am
  43. 2003-08-21 4:40 am
  44. 2003-08-21 5:42 am
  45. 2003-08-21 6:48 am
  46. 2003-08-21 11:40 am
  47. 2003-08-21 12:41 pm
  48. 2003-08-21 1:03 pm
  49. 2003-08-21 2:10 pm
  50. 2003-08-21 2:46 pm
  51. 2003-08-21 3:34 pm
  52. 2003-08-21 3:36 pm
  53. 2003-08-21 6:27 pm
  54. 2003-08-21 6:36 pm
  55. 2003-08-21 7:26 pm
  56. 2003-08-21 7:28 pm
  57. 2003-08-21 7:52 pm
  58. 2003-08-21 9:58 pm
  59. 2003-08-21 10:38 pm